Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, 514 Auburn Avenue (Duplex), 514 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Atlanta - the Upper Auburn Avenue area. Originally called Wheat Street in honor of one of Atlanta's pre-Civil War merchants. The name was changed in 1893 to the more stylish Auburn Avenue. As early as the 1880's Auburn Avenue became the center of Atlanta's black business and professional community. The interrelationship of residential, commercial, and religious architecture together with the strong black cultural history is representative of the life and work of Dr. King to the extent that the area was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977 and a unit of the National Park Service in 1980. The restrained Queen Anne style house at 514 Auburn Avenue is an integral component of the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site. Built ca. 1893, it was occupied by whites until 1905, and by black tenants from 1910 to 1925. It was then occupied alternately by the Shaw and Sanders families until 1955. The house was later converted into two-family flats...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-77

Survey number: HABS GA-2169-B

Building/structure dates: ca. 1893 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: after 1900 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1985 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000677

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1933 - 1980

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